16 October 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Convex, expanding with age, date brown to yellowish brown when moist, pale when dry, sparsely covered with coarse white scales, lined when moist, to about 3 cm across Gills Adnate, pale brown, becoming blackish brown when old, margin pale Stem Equal, slender, fragile, white, covered with woolly scales when young Flesh Whitish Smell Indistinct Taste Mild Season Summer to autumn Distribution Very rarely reported Habitat On cattle and horse dung Spore Print Purple black Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, smooth with a germ pore (10-13) x (5.5-7) µm2. Basidia four spored. Gill face cystidia flask shaped. Gill edge cystidia flask shaped and broadly club shaped. Edibility Unknown but of no interest due to small size and rarity 
16 October 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 16 October 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Gill edge cystidium and basidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 16 October 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |